Car-coupling



(N o Model.) E. B. OAKLEY.

GAR COUPLING. No. 314,049. Patented Mar. 17, 1885.

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EDWARD B. OAKLEY, OF MADISON, VVISOONSIN.

CAR-COUPLING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 314,049, dated March 1'7, 1885.

Application filed September 13. 1884. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD B. OAKLEY, of Madison, in the county of Dane and State of Wisconsin, have invented a new and Improved Car-Ooupling, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to improvements in car-couplings; and it consists in the peculiar construction and arrangement of parts, as hereinafter fully described, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the figures.

Figure l is a front View of my improved carcoupling, parts being in section. Fig. 2 is a plan view of two draw-heads, parts being broken out and others in section.

The draw-head A is provided on its outer end and at one side edge with the inwardlyinclined guide-faces a b, the faces a projecting above and below the top and bottom of the draw-head.

In the end of the draw-head the three pockets B O D are formed, the first being at the, inner ends of the guide-faces a b. The middle pocket, O,is to receive the usual couplinglink, and has top and bottom pin-apertures,G.

In the pocket D, which is open at the outer end, a hook-link, E, is pivoted by a vertical bolt, F, to swing laterally, the hook projecting toward the middle of the draw-head and inward.

A stop, G, on the inner edge of the hooklink E at the inner end serves to prevent the link from swinging outward too far, and a spring, H, prevents it from swinging inward too far.

A flat spring, J, is secured to each guidesurface I) atthe outer edge, the free end ofthe spring being at the inner end of the pocket B, as shown in Fig. 2.

The pocket B is provided with top and bottom pin-apertures for receiving the heavy coupling-pin K, suspended by a cord, L, from the inner pivoted ends of two levers, M,

pivoted to the end of the car and extending to the sides. I

Springs N pull the inner ends of the le'vers M down.

A ring, 0, is secured on the upper end of the cord L, and a book, 1?, is provided on the end of the car, on which hookthe ring 0 can be passed tohold the pin raised.

An L-shaped stop, Q, on the top of the draw-head is so arranged that the pin must strike against it when the pin is raised too high. When the draw-heads come together, the pockets B face the pockets D, and the pockets 0 face each other. The hook-links E pass into the opposite pockets, B, and strike against the coupling-pins K, on which they catch and against which they are pressed by the springs J, the cars being thus coupled automatically by two links.

To uncouple the cars the pins K are raised by means of the levers M. If a car is not to couple, the pin K is kept raised by the ring 0 and hook P.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. In a car-coupling, the combination, with the draw-head A, provided with the pockets B O D, of the pivoted hooks E. the spring J, bearing on the front ends of the hooks, the pin K, and means for raising and lowering said pin, substantially as herein shown and described.

2. In a car-coupling, the combination, with the draw-head A, provided with the pockets B O D, of the pivoted hook E, the spring J, the pin K, the cord L, and the levers M, substantially as herein shown and described.

3. In a oar-coiupling, the combination, with the draw-heads A, provided with the pockets 'B O D, the pockets B having beveled guide-surfams b. of the pivoted hooks E, the pins K, the cords L, and the levers M, substantially as herein shown and described.

EDWARD B. OAKLEY. Vituesses:

D. A. OAKLEY, M. M. OAKLEY. 

